Security, the environment and emancipation : contestation over environmental change / / Matt McDonald

• Autore: McDonald Matt
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 355/.033
• Soggetto topico: Security, International; Global environmental change; International relations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- The construction of security -- Emancipation -- Brazilian Amazonian deforestation -- Australia and global climate change -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers an examination of the role of emancipation in the study and practice of security, focusing on the issue of environmental change.The end of the Cold War created a context in which traditional approaches to security could be systematically questioned. This period also saw a concerted attempt in IR to argue that environmental change constituted a threat to security. This book argues that such a notion is problematic as it suggests that a universal definition of security is possible, which prevents a recognition of security as a site of contestation, in which a ra
• Titolo autorizzato: Security, the environment and emancipation
• ISBN: 978-0-415-67160-4; 9780415671604; 1-283-44310-4; 9786613443106; 0-203-80513-5; 1-136-64596-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457559403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: PRIO new security studies.